Look, we know New Year’s can be one of the most over-wrought party nights on any calendar. Still, it’s one of the biggest party nights of the year, period. In a city with a nightlife the size of Toronto, there’s something for every scene and every budget — if you … Read More
For more than 80 years, the wild investigative-journo adventures of Belgian boy reporter Tintin and his canine sidekick Snowy have captivated a wide range of international audiences — sometimes even North Americans! Excuse the snark, but for many on this continent, Tintin knowledge has been limited to grade-school French class … Read More
Canadian music continued to make huge waves this year. In the wake of the world’s love affair with Arcade Fire, North American critics are still agog over Canuck product. Drake, Feist, The Weekend and tUnE-yArDs have all been dominating top ten lists, even if most of the time American writers … Read More
Even with the abundance of piracy, music blogs and award shows, keeping up with the latest and greatest Canadian bands is no easy task. Sometimes a few manage to scratch the surface — recent explosions of Drake, Justin Bieber and Arcade Fire surely, but nonetheless surprisingly, put Canada on the … Read More
The richness of the Toronto music scene has long been undervalued, at home and abroad. Perhaps size and stylistic diversity work against our metropolis, seeing critics latch upon more homogenous communities like Seattle, Athens (in the ’80s), Manchester, and, more recently, Montreal, appointing them musical hotbeds for a few short … Read More
